July 2017

Feature: Cybersecurity Update

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) representatives have hit the road in a yearlong campaign to raise awareness of what the agency calls the cyber-physical world, a world filled with an untold number of connected devices. DARPA’s Software Defined Radio (SDR) Hackfest hopes to propel the rise in demand for and interest in the [...]

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio and ARMONK, N.Y. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced that it is collaborating with computing giant IBM on a novel brain-inspired supercomputing system powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System.

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ARLINGTON, Va. Virginia Tech with support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) developed an operating system that can compile different programming languages into a single cyber tongue called Popcorn Linux.

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Under the terms of the contract, CACI will continue to provide personnel and expertise to support NAVFAC’s capability to meet Department of Defense (DoD) information-assurance standards for providing cybersecurity to the Navy’s industrial-control systems. Work under this most recent contract draws on CACI’s experience designing, developing, configuring, certifying, and accrediting the initial hardware and software [...]

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Under the task order, SAIC will support MARFORCYBER in its mission to safeguard its IT infrastructure against cyber-based attacks, protect technologies and capabilities, and strengthen the overall security of IT infrastructure. The task order has a one-year base period of performance, two one-year options, and a total value of approximately $27 million if all options [...]

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General Dynamics Information Technology — a business unit of General Dynamics — will support JEM software development and technical documentation, perform field system upgrades and modifications, monitor operations, head up program and systems engineering management, and support maintenance and sustainment activities. It will also serve as the integrator of JEM software. The single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite [...]

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Raytheon will act as the prime contractor and systems integrator to safeguard the “.gov” domain by providing design, development, operations, and maintenance services in support of DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate. Under the terms of the contract, Raytheon will aid DHS as it develops the next generation of the National Cybersecurity Protection System, which [...]

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Possible applications for such a processor would include virus detection in streaming digital data, key features search for computer vision, and queries in massive unindexed databases. S2 has been working on processor-in-memory capability that is analog and photonic-based, using laser light to interact with a crystal, which operates differently than typical integrated circuits. In contrast, [...]

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Leonardo will collaborate with NCI Agency to identify cyberthreat patterns and attack trends, in an effort aimed at improving preventive measures, reducing the scope of future cyberattacks, and boosting NATO’s ability to safeguard information when working with private industry. NATO and companies working with NATO members face increasing risks that information exchanged or stored on their networks and [...]

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While several top defense contractors bid on the U.S. Army Mission Command contract, the Army chose the Systematic SitaWare commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution as the Army was looking for a suite of software products to give troops on the ground and elsewhere situational awareness at all levels of command in mounted and dismounted environments. Raytheon [...]